AT773671CRV - Community Pharmacy Award 1998 [Transitional]

PART 7 - LEAVE OF ABSENCE AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS 

25. ANNUAL LEAVE

25.1 Employees are entitled to four weeks annual leave per annum without loss of ordinary pay.

25.2 Employees will be paid an additional loading of 17½% of their ordinary pay.

25.3 This leave is to be taken at a mutually convenient time within six months of becoming due or as otherwise agreed between the employer and the employee. Where agreement cannot be reached, the employer may direct the employee to take leave with one month’s notice.

25.4 By agreement between the employer and employee annual leave may be taken in advance. No loading is payable to an employee who takes annual leave wholly or partly in advance, provided that if the employment of such an employee continues until the employee would have become entitled to annual leave, then the loading becomes payable in respect of the period of annual leave taken in advance.

25.5 Where annual leave is taken and paid in advance, the employer is entitled to recover any monies owing from termination payments due where the employment is terminated without the annual leave accruing.

25.6 Where a public holiday occurs during an employees period of annual leave and is observed on a day which in the case of that employee would have been an ordinary working day, a day of equivalent length shall be added to their annual leave.

25.7 Untaken leave will be paid out on termination of employment. Leave not accrued on a full year basis will be paid out on the basis of one third of a weeks ordinary pay for each month of service. The loading prescribed in this clause shall not apply to proportionate leave on termination of employment.

25.8 Annual leave does not accrue during a period of leave without pay.

25.9 Where a part-time employee works additional hours over and above their usual roster, which may include periods of full-time employment, the employees ordinary pay for the purposes of annual leave is to be the average weekly rate of ordinary pay earned in the twelve months immediately before the employee commenced annual leave.

25.10 Annual leave can also be taken as family leave. Refer to 27.3.

[new 25.11 inserted by PR969389 ppc 27Feb06]

25.11 An employee may elect, with the consent of their employer, to take annual leave in single days, up to a maximum of 10 single days in any year.

[25.12 inserted by PR969389 ppc 27Feb06]

25.12 To assist employees in balancing their work and family responsibilities, an employee may elect, with the consent of the employer, to accrue and carry forward any amount of annual leave for a maximum of two years from the date of entitlement.

[25.11 renumbered as 25.13 by PR969389 ppc 27Feb06]

25.13 This clause does not apply to casual employees.